State ex rel. Floyd v. Superior Court

Citations

• 86 Wash. 410

Syllabus

<p>Eminent Domain — Right to Condemn- — Counties—Statutes. A county may construct permanent highways through the corporate limits of cities of the third and. fourth class and for that purpose condemn the necessary right of way, where the city by ordinance has authorized it, under 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 5879-18 and 5879-19, providing that the county may construct such roads, and pay or aid the city to pay for the condemnation of rights of way, if the city is unable to pay for the same, and Id., § 5879-8, providing that the county commissioners, when necessary for straightening ... or improving any permanent highway, may take the necessary right of way by condemnation proceedings.</p>